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Essential Waterproofing Design Principles

Waterproofing failures cost billions annually due to problems that could be avoided with good design. Key principles of waterproofing include getting water off buildings quickly by increasing slopes, preventing 90% of intrusion that occurs at critical junctions between building systems through detailed design, and avoiding installation errors like improper surface preparation or primer use.

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Essential Waterproofing Design Principles

Waterproofing failures cost billions annually due to problems that could be avoided with good design. Key principles of waterproofing include getting water off buildings quickly by increasing slopes, preventing 90% of intrusion that occurs at critical junctions between building systems through detailed design, and avoiding installation errors like improper surface preparation or primer use.

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WATERPROOFING SYSTEMS

Waterproofing failures cost billions of dollars annually, not to mention millions


of man-hours of time lost in attending to these problems. Good waterproofing
design will eliminate these problems!
Key Principles of Waterproofing
1. Get the water off the building, fast! The quicker you get the water off the
building, the less chance of it pooling and leaking into the structure. You can
do this by increasing slopes wherever possible, which increases the speed of
the travel of water on the surface of building.
2. 90% of water intrusion occurs at critical junctions, such as the seam
between one facade system and another. Today's building systems are
complex, and many are proprietary, meaning that the supplier, not the building
designers, works out the details. In this environment it is essential for the
architect or building designers to understand these junctions in great detail to
prevent problems.
3. When it is not a design failure, water intrusion occurs mainly due to
installation [Link] include inadequate surface preparation, improper
use of primers, failure to take into account the thermal and wind movements
of the structure, or other human errors such as not following the
correct installation procedure.

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